Does anybody else experience this ?

Yes, but I noticed something interesting. Sometimes I’ll buy the same figure twice because there’s a manufacturing error or some issue with it and I’ll return the dud. But before I do that, I’ll try which has the stiffest joints in the hands and which pegs fit the tightest. So it can be two identical figures with identical hands and still fit differently. Some will be tighter than others.

At first I thought it was because it loosens up the peg hole. Or maybe the inner plastic sleeve inside the outer arm shell gets pushed back as the hand peg goes in. But, no. Because I’ll put one hand in, it’ll be tight, a duplicate hand from the duplicate figure placed in the alpha figure will be loose, and switching back to the original hand will be tight again.

So my theory is that some pegs or holes might have a little extra plastic on them coming out of the mold to keep things tight and some will have less. And it’s likely such a small amount that it’s imperceptible to the eye. Maybe weighing hands on a scale would yield different weights.

The story of Legends 21

I was swapping hands the first post-Shield basic Ambrose and the wrist hinge pulled right apart so the circular hinge became a hook. That had never happened to me. I was stunned.